Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others (2005)
English language
Published 21. Januar 2005
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in 2002 by Tor Books. It collects Chiang's first eight stories. All of the stories except "Liking What You See: A Documentary" were previously published individually elsewhere. It was reprinted in 2016 as Arrival to coincide with the adaptation of "Story of Your Life" as the film Arrival. Chiang's second collection, Exhalation: Stories was released in 2019.
Questo libro sembra scritto ieri, eppure ha già più di vent'anni.
Tutti i racconti sono affascinanti, ma soprattutto l'ultimo racconta una facciata della società… attualissima. Non vedo l'ora di leggere altro di Chiang, se è tutto di questo livello… wow.
This is my favorite format of science fiction : short but thought provoking stories. Surprisingly, the story that gave the name to this book is far from being the best in my opinion. If you want mind-bending novels that are both fun and at the same time disturbing, this book is a must-read.
特德姜擅长把一个概念拓展成一个世界。他的故事是另一个世界的一片截面，常常是我们随着主角一起去探索世界。其力量感也正在于此。
我特别喜欢审美滤镜那篇。
This short-story collection is ideas-driven, not character-driven, and very good. In a way, it feels like a throwback to the 1950s anthologies I read in my teens, minus any trite cliches or stereotyped characters. And the ideas presented in Chaing's stories are exciting. What if in ancient Babylonia, you could buil a tower to heaven? What would the logistics be? What if the letters used to activate a golem was like its DNA? What would the world be like if biblical angels came to earth fairly regularly? And that other one, about beauty - excellent food for thought.
